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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Ingres vs. RocksDB vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Well established RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

rocksdb.org

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.actian.com/ingres

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Amazon

Actian Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2012

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2013

2006

Current release

11.2, May 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Ingres Replicator

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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